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(8 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

Glitchmod Tutorial
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Have you ever wanted your gameboy to sound really crappy and glitchy and be able to control how much glitchy-grossness is going on? Well I'm here to tell you how with two switches and some wire. You can put the switches wherever you want, but I highly reccomend not putting them where I did, one above thed-pad and one above the A+B buttons. They're fun, but they required a lot of modding to the switches and cutting of the PCBs and it was just gross overall.

These switches control a glitchy, nasty tone being produced that can be changed and altered with a GetLoFi pitch mod, flipping the switches on and offand fooling around with the other audio you're playing. One switch controls the left channel and the other switch controls the right channel.

Here's the instructions: (Pictures soon!)


Also, I'm not responsible for any damage this may cause...do it at your own risk!!!

1. Open the Gameboy

2. Carefully detatch the halves of the gameboys.

3. Solder a wire to the post-pot left point on the back PCB, and another wire to the post-pot right point on the back PCB.

4. Connect both to two seperate switches. You should have two switches with one wire going to one audio channel each.

5. Now, look at the back PCB. Above the ribbon cable, there should be a group of 6 solder points. On the bottom left one, solder a wire and connect it to one of the switches.

6. On the seventh pin in from the right, there should be a lead that goes out and hits another solder point. Solder a wire to that, and to the other switch.

7. Now, mount the switches in the case wherever you see fit, and you're done!


If you want, you can customize the mod and add mini potentiometers to change the volume of the glitchiness independantly of the volume of the audio, or you could try other components and see what they do.

A piece of advice, DO NOT CONNECT EITHER OF THESE WIRES TO THE 2nd PIN IN FROM THE LEFT OF THE RIBBON CABLE. That would ruin your processor and it will never work again. Learned that the hard way.


If you don't feel comfortable soldering or mounting switches or anything, I'm open to having you send me your gameboy and some money and I'll do it for you smile

If you're interested, email me and we'll talk. Depending on what exactly you want, like where the switches are or if you want potentiometers or
anything, the price might change, but assume $30 as a good base level for parts and labor. This takes a while to do correctly and carefully, especially with where I put my switches but I'll only do that if you really really really really want it.

What does it do?
Here's what the glitchmod sounds like paired with a variable clock speed mod big_smile
http://chipmusic.org/frostbyte/music/gl … er-megaman

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(9 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

Lol, I'll post them now for your sake and add pictures later ;D

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(9 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

Well, I solved both the Case LEDs and the glitch switch ideas, and I'll post tutorials for them both soon! big_smile

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(19 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Or dick on hand.

Or you could just use Unlikely Hero, that sounds like a stage name.

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(204 replies, posted in Collaborations)

dat recursion

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(8 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

edit: double post

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(8 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

Timing is a lot better, and the transitions feel a lot better and the hi hat isn't as awkward. Sounds really good man! Maybe you can pump up the drums a bit more in the mix though haha.

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(5 replies, posted in Releases)

Hey dude, this is a really good album big_smile Love it! much better than anything I've ever written lol

just wanted to say that you guys are the best group I've ever made music with big_smile

Almost last place sad

Oh well, I feel accomplished with 2 votes! Can't wait for the next one!

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(5 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

I already got that one running wink

I found a cool bend where you connect the audio and the video together...sounds weird. I'll post it when it all works

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(5 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

Looks cool dude big_smile I'm just getting into circuit bending...have you found any interesting effects with a DMG? I'm working on a mod to make a "glitch" switch...still looking for some cool sounds, but so far I haven't gotten anything cool yet tongue

Okay, so in my quest looking for some kind of connection somewhere, I decided it was a good idea to try and see what happens when you connect the little points behind where you plug the ribbon cable in  to the pre-pot audio points...mostly it was fine until I played with the far left side, then i saw some sparks and the back PCB doesn't work anymore sad

Luckily I have one spare, but other than that I'm out...there's some cool sounds from the right side, but stay away from the left, as far as you can!!! I'll post anything I find that sounds cool later, I'm still fooling around on the right side with different resistors smile

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(8 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

There seems to be a lot of timing issues and the hi hat in the first drum part is really awkward...Other than that, It's pretty clever though. However the transitions from 8 bit to guitar are a bit sharp, but if you're going for that "low level coding" feel I guess it makes a little bit more sense.

Overall, not bad. The bass could be higher in the mix, I didn't really hear any of it. I'd like to see this when it's all done smile

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(204 replies, posted in Collaborations)

8-Bit-Rex wrote:

NEXT WEEK WE'LL ALL DRINK THIS TASTY PUNCH I MADE!

This forever

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(204 replies, posted in Collaborations)

That sounds really awesome...like one collaborative song combining all of our awesome beautiful minds big_smile